Where did 20 million democrat votes go?

Well, the Democrats spent the last decade crushing the progressive wing of the party and made it clear that they would be cool with losing to a fascist before they would let anyone left of Nancy Pelosi take the party nomination.

A bunch of former bernie bros probably voted for Elon Musk more than for Trump. Think Joe Rogan if you need a stereotype of the kind of person I am talking about.

The Democrats gave Muslim voters a middle finger.

Right wing pundits were telling their followers to take it out on their wives or girlfriends if they lost probably putting some women in a scary situation.

I also have noticed how the mainstream centrist technocrat types seem oblivious to the fact that there are some pretty socially conservative latino and black communities so you have to give them a reason beyond race to vote against what they hear at church every Sunday.

They did what -- unfortunately-- Americans tend to do: when forced with two major candidates, neither of which enthuses them, they sit on their hands and don't vote. Rather than voting for a third party or fourth party candidate, which may be futile but will send a louder message to the politicians than just not voting. Brett Stephens of the NY Times had a great column on political ideologues' inability to assess their failures to hear the voters vs. looking for tactical campaign errors to blame.

Some of them went to Trump. Mostly the nearly 40% gains in Hispanic votes, white women who probably did NOT see the TV ad reminding them they can vote for the candidate of their choosing, but 52% of them voted for him. And the 25% of young blacks who voted for him.